Missed opportunity

Rating: Null/10 (23 September 2004)

All that was good about this film borrowed heavily from the Day of the Triffids, a well written and utterly convincing book by John Wyndham.
For example, the wake-up sequence, the deserted hospital, the deserted city, meeting other survivors and the retreat to the countryside at the end. The solutions that people offer in the book are much less crude and more thought provoking than the stupid soldier ending to 28DL.
I think that because of the similarities in plot and the fact that permission to shut bits of London and the M1 motorway isn't afforded to many films DOTT will never be made into a British-based film.
It's a real shame because the story is very cinematic and the subtle way the author deals with the inter-relationships between the living, dead and blind characters would lend a very solid plot, with a much better ending than 28 DL.
Plus the infected/zombies in this film were too OTT. The relentless march of a slow moving but deadly army of genetically modified plants would be more apt to 'now' and would be less 'then' (ie 70s/80s gore horror).
Shame. But 28DL was great until they met the soldiers. One of the best films I've seen in ages.